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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, along

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Speaker 1: and on Bloomberg dot com. Well, I think I just

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Speaker 1: figured out why Tom Keene was not in today. He

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Speaker 1: is home with his computer online shopping, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he's got a lot of other folks they're joining him.

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Speaker 1: It's supposed to be a record cyber Monday here is

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Speaker 1: more and more people shop online, abandonedents stores and go online.

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Speaker 1: John Copeland, VP of Marketing and Customer Insights at Adobe

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Speaker 1: UH he joins US Adobes based in San Jose, California.

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Speaker 1: So John, give us the early early read here of

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Speaker 1: a Black Friday going into a cyber Monday, leading us

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Speaker 1: to the final weeks of holiday shopping. Yeah. So it's

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Speaker 1: been a record breaking Thanksgiving weekend already with over twenty

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Speaker 1: three and a half billion dollars in online sales. That's

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Speaker 1: a increase over last year. Today, Cyber Monday, we are

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Speaker 1: expecting a day to break all previous records for US

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Speaker 1: online sales, coming in somewhere between ten point eight and

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Speaker 1: twelve point seven billion dollars. That will be somewhere between

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Speaker 1: a fifteen and increase over last year. So it's interesting, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, you you think about those numbers that you

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Speaker 1: just mentioned, John, in terms of you know, the overall

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Speaker 1: it's just extraordinary given what's going on in the world,

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Speaker 1: given uh, the tough times that many consumers find themselves

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Speaker 1: in here as a result of the pandemic and unemployment.

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Speaker 1: Seems like a lot of this unemployment is now chronic unemployment.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of it? Yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 1: part of what we're seeing is really people trying to

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Speaker 1: have as much of a kind of normal Christmas and

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Speaker 1: celebration as as possible, right, I mean, I've I've seen

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Speaker 1: a lot of stories about people setting up their Christmas

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Speaker 1: decorations even before Thanksgiving. In fact, we we did that

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Speaker 1: in our house this year, trying to have more of

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Speaker 1: that kind of traditional end of your holiday spirit in

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Speaker 1: the context of this really really challenging year. And so

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Speaker 1: people are doing what they can to try and bring

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Speaker 1: as much of a normal end of your holiday home

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Speaker 1: as they can. All Right, So, John, we already saw

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Speaker 1: obviously even before the pandemic, UH a year's long trend

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Speaker 1: It seems to have been dramatically accelerated here during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Is there any reason to think that post pandemic it's

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Speaker 1: Or is or is some of these market shifts that

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Speaker 1: the question everybody is really asking and interested in. We

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Speaker 1: expect that, you know, a good chunk of this new

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Speaker 1: digital behavior will probably stick around. Is consumers are finding

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Speaker 1: out that you know, the convenience of online ordering and

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Speaker 1: either having it delivered to their home or being able

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Speaker 1: you know, we we've continued to see this digital increase,

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Speaker 1: that's really going to be hard for people to to

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Speaker 1: So John, give us a sense of what's hot this

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. We really appreciated. We

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Speaker 1: know you're busy this time of the year. John Copeland,

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Speaker 1: San Jose, California. You know, generally a what we're hearing

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Speaker 1: are dealing with. So there's that for the consumer. Let's

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Speaker 1: crude oil. And there's really no one better to do

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Speaker 1: that with than Ellen Walled, President of Transversal Consulting. She

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Speaker 1: is also Bloomberg Opinion contributor. So Ellen, love to talk

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Speaker 1: to you about OPEK. What do you expect for their

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Speaker 1: looking for at this point, we're not looking for any

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Speaker 1: What does a Biden administration mean and what does it

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Speaker 1: And so I think that everyone is going to be

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Speaker 1: out of the window. So as it relates to China, Ellen,

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Speaker 1: we've seen them, you know, whether the pandemic. They are

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Speaker 1: We're joined today by Chris Hughes, Deals columnists for Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Opinion and what deal you may ask, Well, it is

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Speaker 1: Tell us about this deal. What's kind of the strategy

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Speaker 1: How far does it go? Well, if you think about

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Speaker 1: done yet. Hey, Chris Hughes, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: a huge deal on that data analytic space enterprise value

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Speaker 1: there that we're seeing and we should know that. Again,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg LP compete. It's with both S and P as

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Speaker 1: like a lot of markets, it's all about scale. Thanks

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